Perkins Coie LLP at a Glance

Uppers

Downers

“Below market pay”

“Lack of time to get things done”

“Work is very cyclical”

The Buzz

“Great election law practice”

“The best in Seattle/Northwest”

“Insular”

“Inconsistent experiences”

About Perkins Coie LLP

Perkins Coie got off to a good start: founded
in 1912, the Seattle-based firm's earliest clients included one
William E. Boeing Sr., founder of the eponymous aeronautics
company. The relationship with Boeing contributed to Perkins Coie's
reputation for representing high-tech and cutting-edge ventures in
what has become one of the nation's technology hotspots. The firm's
intellectual property practice-including patent prosecution, patent
litigation and trademark and copyright protection and
litigation-now includes nearly 225 attorneys.

While Perkins Coie represents clients in the
usual big sectors, the firm has also built up some interesting
niches, including wineries and vineyards, senior living centers and
airport concessions. Its list of clients includes household names
like Microsoft, Craigslist, Starbucks, Expedia, Google, UPS, Intel
and Costco.

Although the firm has stayed true to its
Seattle roots with the largest office still in Seattle, the firm
has expanded to include sixteen domestic offices, including four
offices and more than 150 attorneys in California, as well as large
offices with more than 100 attorneys each in the Chicago and
Washington, DC offices.

Governing Government

Perkins Coie entered the national spotlight
following its 2006 victory before the U.S. Supreme Court in
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, in which the Court ruled that the Bush
Administration's use of military commissions to try terrorism
suspects was unconstitutional. The case landed in the firm's lap
when erstwhile Georgetown Law Professor (and current Deputy
Solicitor General) Neal Katyal and JAG Lawyer and Navy Lt.
Commander Charles Swift-working on behalf of Guantanamo detainee
Salim Ahmed Hamdan-settled on Seattle as their venue of choice to
file a lawsuit against the government. One of Katyal's former
students happened to work in Perkins Coie's Seattle office, and
this connection led to Perkins Coie taking the detainee's case pro
bono. The case served as a dramatic rebuke to executive
overreaching and stands as one of Perkins Coie's most notable
victories.

More recently, the firm has represented
President Barack Obama in his personal matters and
federally-required financial disclosure reports. When Obama's
attorney Robert Bauer left the firm to become White House counsel,
partner Judith Corley took over as Obama's rep at the firm's DC
office. She's the one who contacted Hawaii's health department in
April 2011 to request the president's long-form birth certificate,
which he released in an effort to squelch chatter about his
citizenship.

Shacking up in Shanghai

In addition to domestic offices across the
United States, Perkins Coie has offices in Beijing and Shanghai in
Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone-Shanghai's central financial and
trade district. The Chinese offices focus primarily on intellectual
property, business and personal planning matters for domestic and
international clients (heavily from the technology and
pharmaceutical sector). The Beijing location serves multinational
clients, advising on investment and trade matters, as well as
interpretation of China's business laws and regulations.

Although the offices in China did not open
until the early 2000s, the firm had been active in the country for
several decades before that.

Towering over Taipei

The Perkins Coie office in Taipei, Taiwan was
opened to expand the firm's Asia practice and to better serve its
Taiwan-based clients, particularly in patent litigation and other
intellectual property matters in the United States. The office is
located in the Taipei 101 Tower, an international landmark and one
of the world's tallest buildings.

Attorneys at Perkins Coie have been actively
representing Taiwanese companies for more than a decade in many
high profile patent cases. The firm recently secured an important
patent litigation victory for HTC before the U.S. International
Trade Commission in a case filed against it and others by
FlashPoint Technologies.

IN THE NEWS

March
2015

A Lucky 13 Years

For the 13th year in a row, Perkins Coie was
named one of the 2015 Fortune 100 Best Companies To Work
For®.

February
2015

Home Sweet Home

Perkins Coie attorneys represented Zillow,
Inc., which operates the leading real estate and home-related
information marketplaces on mobile and the Web, in the close of its
previously-announced acquisition of Trulia, Inc., a provider of
mobile and web products for homebuyers, sellers and renters, for
$2.5 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction.

Staying on Top

Perkins Coie has been ranked by Chambers
& Partners, as one of the top law firms in the United
States.

November
2014

Law Firm of the Year

Perkins Coie was named 2014-2015 "Law Firm of
the Year" in both Environmental Law and Technology Law by U.S. News
- Best Lawyers®. The firm also received first-tier rankings
in 32 practice areas nationally and first-tier rankings in 63
practice areas in 13 major markets including Alaska, Chicago,
Colorado, Dallas, Idaho, Los Angeles, Madison, New York, Phoenix,
Portland, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC.

September
2014

Clearing the Minefield

Perkins Coie represented Microsoft Corporation
as U.S. counsel and primary intellectual property counsel in
connection with its $2.5 billion acquisition of the Stockholm-based
game developer Mojang, the creator of the "Minecraft" video game
franchise.

August
2014

Female Friendly

Perkins Coie has again has been named one of
the "Best Law Firms for Women" by Working Mother Media and
Flex-Time Lawyers LLC.